Commonwealth v. Kirkpatrick

WORTHINGTON, J.,

On March 16,2005, Detective Douglas A. Knowles, who is employed by the Stroud Area Regional Police Department and is also a member of the Pennsylvania State Police Area V Computer Task Force, received information from Gabriela Renda regarding possible child pornography. Ms. Renda relayed that she was having problems with her computer, located in the bedroom of her 756 Main Street, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania residence. She communicated to the detective that while she was trying to figure out the problem, she opened a file that was located in a shared Network file. The Network…